Prosecutor alleges that Jose Luis Abarca sent police into action to prevent students disrupting an event at which his wife was presenting a report.
The mayor of a town in southern Mexico ordered a police attack that resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students who are still missing weeks later, according to the country’s top prosecutor.
Jesus Murillo Karam, the attorney general, told reporters on Wednesday that Mayor Jose Luis Abarca ordered local police into action to prevent students disrupting an event at which his wife was presenting a report.
Mr Murillo Karam said that the mayor’s wife had been linked to drug gangs and was now considered a fugitive, along with her husband and the police chief in Iguala.
He added that authorities had discovered a total of nine mass graves in the area around Iguala containing 30 bodies, two more than previously reported.
Initial DNA tests have not linked the cadavers to the missing students.
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